00:00I spent a lot of last year, especially on our Yankee webcast, talking about how horrible they are at baseball.
00:06And they kept doing the nothing to see here, nothing to see here.
00:10And it only cost them a World Series.
00:12And then they wanted to alibi the World Series as one inning, one game.
00:17Then they complained, well, Joe Kelly and Miguel Rojas, like they were.
00:21At what point do you say it isn't one game?
00:25It isn't one series.
00:26It's not superficial players on the Dodgers.
00:29It's not a week.
00:30This was like they are in a for multiple years now, for at least the last three seasons, they have a period in the second half where they have runs like this, where they play well under 500 for sustained periods of time.
00:47John, you mentioned the run differential.
00:50This is the run differential of a team that should be comfortably in first place in this division.
00:55At some point, this is a terrible reflection on Aaron Boone and his coaching staff of like you're just not getting the most out of the group.
01:03You allow it to go into a death swirl at about this time every year.
01:07Now, if you want to say then Aaron Boone pulls them out of it and they're fine, I assume they'll probably pull out of this and be fine.
01:14But we know this is the Frankenstein's monster inside them that will kill them again at some point along the way.
01:21Yeah, I mean, accountability is a problem.
01:24Jeter and A-Rod mentioned this on TV.
01:27We've all seen it.
01:29We've all said it as well.
01:31The illustration of that was Chaz Chisholm, after making that ridiculous base running blunder the other day and getting caught off of first base, was asked if he would do it all over again.
01:43And he said yes.
01:44I mean, Aaron Boone has made clear that that was not the right way to do it.
01:49That was a mistake.
01:50There was no reason to be doubled off on a pop-up to second base when you're not trying to steal second.
01:56You're just standing there.
01:58It made no sense whatsoever.
02:00And this message obviously didn't get through to him at all.
02:04You know, if there was accountability, he would have said, I blew it.
02:08I made a mistake.
02:09I let the team down.
02:10And there obviously is not.
02:12Aaron Boone is great at getting along with everybody.
02:15He's great at making everything sound positive.
02:18But at some point, you've got to suggest to the players that they've got to do something better or different.
02:27You know, I mean, the days of Jim Leland are over.
02:30Billy Martin, certainly way over.
02:32But there's got to be some level of accountability.
02:35Yeah, I think they have a house nine runner, Brian Cashman, Aaron Boone coaching staff.
02:40Like, this is everybody's fault because this isn't a one-day issue.
02:45This is a you've decided to cast your lot in a certain way.
02:49John, that certain way is, to your point, they're a one-talent team.
02:53They hit the ball over the fence.
02:55And when they don't, they look like a different team.
02:58And I just don't know why you can't have it all when you're the Yankees,
03:01why it feels like homers versus everything else.
03:05And, John, I wonder what you think about this.
03:07It's a thought I've had in my head watching them obviously play poorly these last few years
03:12when it comes to technical baseball.
03:14I think what's missed by dispassionate people who only see pieces of graph paper and computer printout
03:20is that if you could do anything, what you'd want to do is hit a home run, right?
03:25It's a sure run.
03:27It could be two.
03:28It could be three, four.
03:29But the only thing you can do on a baseball field that's a sure run is hit it over the fence.
03:32I get it why it's so valuable.
03:33But when you don't see what the energy, momentum, what it does to your dugout,
03:39what it does to their dugout, what it does to a visiting crowd, what it does to a home crowd,
03:42when you hustle a double, when you hustle a triple, when you execute well on the field,
03:47when you execute a bunt.
03:48And by the way, when you're concentrating on stuff like that, it makes you sharper all the time to be able to win a game
03:57when the ball doesn't go over the fence, which sometimes it doesn't often in the postseason.
04:02And I think that they have not seen that there are ties to what they emphasize.
04:07I'm not saying give up analytics.
04:09I'm not saying give up homers.
04:10They're incredibly valuable.
04:12But the indifference to the other stuff, which all feels like box checking and bullshit when they say things like,
04:20oh, we work on that or we're as good as that as anyone in the league.
04:23We all have eyes.
04:24You're not as good at that as everyone in the league.
04:26Yeah, I mean, you know, they were quick to adapt to the analytics and the home runs and the on-base percentage,
04:34and that paid off.
04:35But now there seems to be a cycle, and the teams that are putting the ball in play,
04:39like Toronto and Milwaukee, and teams that don't strike out are actually performing better.
04:48You know, it's not all about the home run, and there's more to the game than hitting the ball over the fence.
04:53And, you know, too many strikeouts.
04:57I mean, to me, it's shocking that their fundamentals are still bad when they've imported Goldschmidt, Bellinger, and McMahon,
05:04three very good defensive players.
05:07Overall, it still seeps in there somehow.
05:12It's really shocking what's going on with this team.
05:15And to be swept against Miami, I mean, that's really another illustration of what's gone on here.
05:21Now, give Miami credit.
05:22They were 16 under.
05:24Now they are 500, so they are obviously playing better.
05:27But they're a team that's got speed, that puts the ball in play, that's got youthful energy.
05:32Yankees don't have any of those things right now.
05:34You're probably the largest score in their own game and is keptELY.
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